AWI Quarterly Term Archive
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Gray Whale Unusual Mortality Event Declared Over
Marine WildlifeIn March, the National Marine Fisheries Service publicly announced that the unusual mortality event (UME) it declared in 2019 involving eastern North Pacific gray whales is over. In consultation with...
Miami-Dade County Says So Long to Squalid Seaquarium
Marine WildlifeMiami Seaquarium has been operating on Virginia Key in Miami-Dade County, Florida, since 1955. In March, the Miami-Dade authorities announced they would be terminating the lease agreement with the Seaquarium...
Workshop Addresses Iberian Orca Interactions with Boats
Marine WildlifeSince 2020, a critically endangered population of orcas living in the waters of the Iberian Peninsula (Spain and Portugal) has been interacting with vessels, primarily sailboats, ramming and damaging the...
AWI’s Christine Stevens Wildlife Award Recipients for 2024
Terrestrial WildlifeThe Christine Stevens Wildlife Award—named in honor of AWI’s late founder and president for over 50 years—provides grants of up to $15,000 to help fund innovative strategies for humane, nonlethal...
Critical NEPA Regulations Restored
Terrestrial WildlifeThe Biden administration released its final phase II rule updating regulations that implement the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), our country’s basic charter for the protection of the environment. This...
New ESA Regulations Fall Short
Terrestrial WildlifeThe US Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Marine Fisheries Service have released new Endangered Species Act regulations that reinstate some critical protections for imperiled species and their habitats,...
Partial Protection for African Elephants
Terrestrial WildlifeThe US Fish and Wildlife Service released a final rule that provides important additional Endangered Species Act protections for imperiled African elephants. However, the agency failed to prohibit the import...
A Sustainable Future for Animals and Us
AWI couldn’t achieve all we do without the support of our members, and as we move into the second half of 2024, we can celebrate our successes, continue our important...
Anti-Wildlife Legislation Takes Hold in the House
Terrestrial WildlifeThe House of Representatives continues to churn out anti-wildlife measures, passing bills at the end of April to increase wolf slaughter and to prevent efforts to remove toxic lead from...
AWI Announces Refinement Research Award and Implementing Refinement Grant Recipients
Animals in LaboratoriesAWI is pleased to announce the most recent recipients of the Refinement Research Award, which funds research projects that develop or test novel refinement methods, and the inaugural Implementing Refinement...